Re: ASP, JSP, PHP...

You'd better look for xml-rpc, basically is the same but much more supported.
The idea is that a php client can send an xml request to a jsp server and receive an answer in xml, gaining full cross platform/application interoperability.
You can look also for webmethods or biztalk ...

Wow, how useful!

WDDX, how useful! Moving a variable between two applications is as easy as converting it to a format only 20 times the size of the original variable! Isn't that efficient?

Seriously I don't understand how XML is catching on so fast. A good standard for data was definitely needed by why is it so unbelievably bloated and inefficient? XML was made for machines to read anyway so why is it made so ridiculously readable to humans while essentially quadrupling the size of the data you have? I don't see why it is such a good idea to waste that much space. "Hard drive space is cheap" they say, yeah but you can't say the processing time to parse those godawful XML files is cheap. Nor is the bandwidth required to send them. Why couldn't XML have been a nice format where it had the names of each field at the top of the file and then everything else neatly compressed without all the redundancy?

Data Exchange with XML, WDDX and PHP

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